• groet@feddit.org
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      9 hours ago

      This could also be used the other way round. “The Germans can only build things they have stolen from somebody else”

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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    12 hours ago

    Is there a single page timeline of all these changes?

    Like they started building mega tanks but then realized it wasn’t working out because land mines would cripple them.

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      6 hours ago

      Actually, the mega-tank projects that they undertook were mostly abandoned because:

      A. They were so heavy they literally sank into the ground

      and/or

      B. They were so slow they were sitting ducks for artillery

      Up-armoring the tracks was one of the great innovations of tanks, and it took ad-hoc explosives rigged up as the first specialized anti-tank mines to get through to them.